Projects

18 October – 21 November 2004

A microphone, an audio line input, a video projector, a soapbox for free speech available to anybody. Beaconsfield invites you to use the Moral Plinth.

25 March – 30 May 2004

Barlow has filmed in the occupied territories of Palestine on four separate occasions over the past two turbulent years. From more than one hundred hours of footage, Barlow presents “Visit Palestine” a documentary installation offering a subjective insight into the conditions in which Palestinian communities are living.

25 March – 30 May 2004

Kerry Stewart lives and works in London. Stewart’s disquieting sculptures and installations, featuring life size figures and rendered in materials such as fibre-glass and resin came to public attention as part of Young British Artists V, Saatchi Gallery (1995). For Part Five, the sculptural work is animated by human performers playing out rituals of loss and desire. Performances will be on Saturday and Sunday from 12noon -6pm at 30 minutes past the hour.

26 February – 30 May 2004
Thursday – Sunday 12 – 6pm

Carina Diepens lives and works in Holland. She has exhibited widely in Europe and collaborated as an artist and curator with organisations such as De Fabriek, Eindhoven, and Bank, London. For Part Four she repeatedly deconstructs and recreates her sculptures by switching them between live and inanimate states. This process not only sets up a curious psychophysical encounter, but questions the work itself.

22 January – 30 May 2004

Laura Ford’s personified, mixed media signature sculptures have been widely exhibited since the early Eighties. Part Three (Wreckers) is informed by Ford’s childhood in funfairs with its experiences of itineracy, masquerade and the grotesque. A purposeful band of Bell Boys and their relationship to a bearded female – an embodiment of creative and destructive forces – raises questions about violence, systems of belief and the absurd.

10 July 2003 – 30 May 2004
Thursday – Sunday 12 – 6pm

Susan Collis tampers with the surfaces of things through meticulous processes of layering and mark-making. For Part Two Collis has introduced her preoccupation with artifice to the lower gallery space by superimposing inlay and veneer on existing and installed fixtures and fittings. Upon close inspection, random and incidental marks of wear and tear reveal themselves as having been laboriously crafted by hand and layers of veneer elevate the status of an ordinary material. These interventions raise questions about aesthetic value, identity, craft and labour.

19 June 2003 – 30 May 2004
Thursday – Sunday 12 – 6pm

Georgina Batty makes spatial explorations with conventional building materials. For Part One, Batty has architecturally adjusted the volume and perspective of Beaconsfield’s upper gallery to allow access to a normally inaccessible part of the building. She draws attention to the exploitable value of urban space by applying the same restrictive proportions as a standard domestic redevelopment to the gallery.

31 October-24 November 2002
Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm

Noble and Silver have achieved considerable critical success on the comedy circuit. At the Edinburgh Festival 2000, they received the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award and in Spring 2001 were commissioned by Channel 4 for a six part series on E4.

30 May- 7 July 2002
Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm

Markus Copper has recently emerged as a key figure in the thriving Finnish Contemporary Art scene, winning the Scandinavian Ars Fennica prize in 1999.

4 April to 12 May 2002
Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm

This is a landscape of caves and shadows, far from gleaming linear modernity, a space where the subconscious can cultivate its strategies and deliver unexpected and devastating blows to the body.

The Agreement is a new sculptural work commissioned by Beaconsfield of the Dublin based artist Shane Cullen.

September / October 2001
UKS Biennial, Alta, Norway